Columns: Tag – Love
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Virtual Therapy
Imago Relationship Therapy
Relationships can be deadly. No-one teaches us how to get through them whole and happy. We charge in and battle it out, each of us thinking we’re right.
A Lipstick Lesbian on the Prowl in London
The hardest thing I’ve ever done
You know that philosophical question: If there’s no one to hear a tree fall down, will it still make a noise when it does?”
Being alone in London feels like this question. You ask it over and over again in different variations: If I throw myself in front of this train, will the passengers in it feel my heart shatter?
If I stand here and pick my nose will anyone notice? If I cry in foetal position in my bathtub with no one knowing or hearing me, am I really sad?
All About Love Official Blog
Happy Valentine’s Day! Allaboutlove has launched.
Allaboutlove.net is dedicated to good writing and … well, love naturally. The site has been designed in the spirit of fun. We hope it will bring a touch of lightness to all our lives.
We’re dedicated to nurturing and publishing writers. But good writers need the best readers, so we’ve packed the site with features about love and relationships, that we hope you’ll enjoy. We’ll update them regularly. This is a community, so please comment on any or all of them.
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In Search of a Sensitive Man
Allaboutlove is constantly on the look-out for good column material for you, our beloved readers. Our assiduousness in this regard is confirmed yet again by the following correspondence with a world-renowned columnist.
*Please note: his name has been changed since we absolutely refuse to give him the slightest recognition until he has accepted our extremely reasonable conditions.
A Lipstick Lesbian on the Prowl in London
The One
Warning: This story ends in heartbreak. If you’ve just come out of a break-up, save this for another day. Or do read it and you can tell me your story and we can cry together. If you’re falling in love, stop reading now, I’ll only depress you and you’ll have your turn soon enough. And if you’re single and alone, this’ll show you why you’re better off that way.
A Lipstick Lesbian on the Prowl in London
DREAM – Day 4 after break-up
Last night I dreamt I was cradled in the One’s breasts and every time I wanted to fall asleep, she lifted my chin and kissed me. It was so real. Soft. Passionate. Forever and perfect…
Then I woke up and realised that I was alone in my bed and The One had broken up with me. Last Thursday, to be exact. It took all the power I had to get out of bed this morning. How do you get out of bed when you have no-one to dream of while you’re awake?
Virtual Therapy
Meanings and misunderstandings
Dear Jo
I was very interested in what you told Phil about the Tiger and the Turtle. My husband and I are so familiar with the steps of that dance, because we’re constantly using it. Towards the end, you said we should make sure we really hear what our partner is saying – that is so true. My husband often thinks I’ve said the complete opposite to what I’ve actually said.
Anything but a Love Story
Humiliation
I hate cappuccinos. I’m sitting in a coffee shop, it’s boiling outside, I’m still wearing my slippers from this morning and I’m drinking a cappuccino. Why? Because I can’t think straight! I’ve been sitting here for two hours trying to think of a way to overcome the physical humiliation I had to endure this morning.
Love Bites
Love lessons learnt though food
Many lessons are learnt through food and although one would assume these lessons are culinary pay careful attention because these are very often lessons in love. And these lessons are unfortunately mostly learnt the hard way.
All About Love Official Blog
Pride and Prejudice in serial form
Allaboutlove has launched, in serial form, one of the most enduring of love stories – Pride and Prejudice. We will be running a new chapter of the novel every week for the next year. If you haven’t yet read Pride and Prejudice, here’s your chance.
The Greatest Contraceptive in the World
The complete guide to handy sexual positions for parents:
Position One: the Couch Pile On
The man lies down face up on the couch. The woman lies on top of him. They cover themselves with a blanket/duvet/similar. This is the cue for any and all children to come and sit on top of the pile, either pretending to ride horsey or shrieking “Pile on! Get dad!” depending on their age.
A Lipstick Lesbian on the Prowl in London
Meeting girls
So how the fuck do you meet people in this town? Or any town for that matter! It’s all: ‘Mom, Dad I’m gay!” Then you go striding through that closet door onto pinker pastures and plop … now what? And with whom?
Virtual Therapy
When romantic love turns into a power struggle
Dear Jo
I’m feeling so upset. It feels like my partner has tricked me. He used to be so loving and caring when we first met, but since our engagement a couple of months ago, he’s changed completely. We’re constantly fighting about the smallest things, and he doesn’t want to spend time with me anymore.
A Lipstick Lesbian on the Prowl in London
Coffee girl
I sell frappacinos to restaurants. It pays better than journalism and I’m in London for a good time, not politics.
The girl who serves the coffee at one of my new clients in Chancery Lane takes my breath away (literally. As in, I forget to breathe). She’s definitely gay. I’m never wrong. Except that one time when I was wrong about my first “girlfriend”. ("Just because I let you fuck me doesn’t make me gay,” I think is how she put it.)
The Greatest Contraceptive in the World
The parents’ sex quiz
Only take this quiz if you are a parent.
Love Bites
A picnic in Paris followed by a night or two ensconced in a romantic hotel
One of the most romantic things you can do is to walk hand in hand with your lover shopping for picnic provisions in that most gorgeous of Parisian enclaves the Île Saint Louis.
Writing is Easy...
Ranulph Moore
Ranulph Moore describes himself as an explorer, who became a writer to purge himself of all the past adventures that were crowding his life in the present. He says he has seen it all, in a life spent observing the lives of others.
All About Love Official Blog
Allaboutlove’s Online Writing Courses
It is said that most people have a book in them. We’ll help you release your inner romance novel, with our kind and practical writing courses.
A Lipstick Lesbian on the Prowl in London
Teach me a lesson
There it was. Perfect. Erect and staring straight at me out of its basket on the floor—
A bunch of old-fashioned wooden rulers – the kind from the fifties when blotchy-skin nuns used them to smack schoolgirls over their little knuckles. Punishment for saying the Lord’s name in vain.
In love with my best friend
Dear Gabriel,
I’m in my final year of high school and I’ve been in love with my best friend for the past year. She doesn’t know and I can’t tell her.
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